Doctrine of Karma || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Nothing has been more distorted, more misunderstood than the doctrine of Karma.

00:05People say this means, do your work and don't care about the results and all kinds of very loathsome interpretations.

00:12Extremely ugly distortions of the Bhagavad Gita.

00:15Somebody who is asking for guarantees, somebody who is craving for assurances.

00:19He was unfit to even touch the Bhagavad Gita.

00:21This is only for the courageous ones.

00:23For all his other weaknesses, Arjun not once asks, what will happen to me in the future?

00:29Can you please guarantee me something about tomorrow?

00:31At least basic minimum guarantees.

00:33I don't know and I don't care.

00:34I do a lot and yet I don't bother.

00:36I work so hard and yet I don't have a future.

00:39That's the doctrine of Karma.

00:40Not what you find peddled in the usual discourses on the Bhagavad Gita.